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  1. I am so happy that I performed my “Invictus” style poem that I wrote on Inauguration Day this year on what turned out to be a very historic election night.

    Thank you to all the people in the US who turned up to their polling places yesterday to make their voices heard. This one is for y’all.

    https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQrr-C-jEQK/?igsh=N3NwdzRxcDFkZWJ0

    WE are the masters of our fate. WE are the captains of our souls.

    Not some clown in the White House.

    Remember that now and always.

    I love y’all.

    If y’all want to read more work like this, my Inauguration Day poem previously appeared on this blog under the category Our Poetry and is published in our zine easy to hate like everything you love.

    -Allēna

    #electionnight #fucktransphobia #fucktrump #invictus #NYCElection #poetry #spokenword #USPol #WilliamErnestHenley #zohranmamdani

  2. “The autumn rain-rot deeper and wider soaks”

    This autumnal carpet of dead leaves caught my eyes.

    The Scots have a word for a "circle of rotted dead leaves round the foot of a tree": "Rain-rot". Not to be confused with the modern useage for an equine skin disease.

    The word seems to have been a favourite of the Victorian Engliah poet William E ...

    fhithich.uk/?p=30675

    #GreatAyton #NorthYorkshire #autumnal #Rain-rot #VillageGreen #WilliamErnestHenley